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20 kg explosives seized from locked house in Madras

In yet another haul, the Madras police seized 20 kg of explosives, including three pipe bombs, 11 tiffin-box bombs, 369 gelatine sticks and detonators from a house in Pulianthope in the suburbs early today.

The seizures were made from the locked portion of a house, which was broken open by a police team after the house owner, Mastan, complained that two youths who had taken the portion for rent were absconding.

The police were ascertaining whether one of the youths who had been staying in the house was Ali Abdullah, deputy general secretary of the Jihad Committee, arrested by the police on Friday, along with four other extremists at Koradacheri in Tiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu.

Abdullah was wanted in connection with bomb explosions in three trains in Kerala and Tamil Nadu on December 6 and near the United States consulate in Madras and the despatch of a letter-bomb to city deputy police commissioner Masanamuthu recently.

On Saturday the police seized 75 kg of explosives, including three bombs from a house in Arumbakkam in Madras, which had been occupied by three wanted extremists, including Ayesha and her husband Mohammed Ali.

Four people, including two women, have been arrested on the charge of harbouring the extremists.

UNI

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